Blameworthy - Judgment Search Results

Comex and Co. Vs. Collector of Customs

Court: Chennai

Reported in: (1998)1MLJ581

..... departmentally and in such cases the delinquency of the defaulter itself would establish the blameworthy conduct sufficient in law to impose a penalty to make amends for the violation ..... before indicating any violator under any of those provisions with personal penalty the establishment of blameworthy conduct which stands proved from the very proof of contravention of the civil obligation .....

Comex Co. Vs. Collector of Customs, Madras-i

Court: Chennai

Reported in: 1997(96)ELT526(Mad); (1998)IMLJ581

..... departmentally and in such cases the delinquency of the defaulter itself would establish the blameworthy conduct sufficient in law to impose a penalty to make amends for the violation ..... before indicating any violator under any of those provisions with personal penalty the establishment of blameworthy conduct which stands proved from the very proof of contravention of the civil obligation .....

Payne Vs. Tennessee

Court: US Supreme Court

..... the elements of the offense and in determining the appropriate punishment thus two equally blameworthy criminal defendants may be guilty of different offenses solely because their acts cause differing ..... system of justice in which every punishment is precisely married to the defendant s blameworthiness somehow justifies a rule that completely divorces some capital sentencing determinations from moral .....

Stanford Vs. Kentucky

Court: US Supreme Court

..... whether there is a disproportion between the punishment imposed and the defendant s blameworthiness and whether a punishment makes any measurable contribution to acceptable goals of punishment ..... history that the eighth amendment forbids punishment that is wholly disproportionate to the blameworthiness of the offender the constitutional principle of proportionality has been recognized explicitly in .....

Enmund Vs. Florida

Court: US Supreme Court

..... thus while proportionality requires a nexus between the punishment imposed and the defendant s blameworthiness the court fails to explain why the eighth amendment concept of proportionality requires rejection ..... of standards of blameworthiness based on other levels of intent such as for example the intent to commit .....

S.P. Gupta Vs. President of India and ors.

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1982SC149; 1981Supp(1)SCC87; [1982]2SCR365

..... he did not believe that his conduct was in any way blameworthy but certain persons were exploiting their proximity to him which had ..... that he did not believe this his petitioner s conduct was blameworthy and left him free to explain any matter which according to ..... complaints and that he did not believe that his conduct was blameworthy but yet pointed out that certain persons were exploiting their .....

Penry Vs. Lynaugh

Court: US Supreme Court

..... concept of proportionality requires a nexus between the punishment imposed and the defendant s blameworthiness penry argues that execution of a mentally retarded person like himself with a ..... that fails the eighth amendment test of proportionality because disproportionate to the offender s blameworthiness by definition is not justly deserved furthermore killing mentally retarded offenders does not .....

Williams (A.P.) Vs. Williams (A.P.)

Court: House of Lords

..... degree of mens rea that at least the respondent must be blameworthy for what he did 8212 and that requires careful consideration ..... want of consideration he said see p 133 they were both blameworthy and each was guilty of behaviour which considered without reference ..... conclusion that the word cruelty of itself involves an implication of blameworthiness indeed i agree with asquith l j in thinking that .....

Attorney General's Reference No 4 of 2002 (On Appeal from the Court of ...

Court: House of Lords

..... to proof of defined facts irrespective of an individual s state of mind or moral blameworthiness many such instances are found in legislation regulating the conduct of economic and social life ..... a proscribed organisation may be guilty of no conduct which could reasonably be regarded as blameworthy or such as should properly attract criminal sanctions 49 recognition of the risk that subsection .....

State and ors Vs. Dr. Ashok Singhvi

Court: Rajasthan Jodhpur

..... promotion but for putting a restraint to adjudge him suitable for promotion for his blameworthy credentials placing heavy reliance on basic tenets of service jurisprudence the learned addl advocate ..... criteria eligibility and procedure for promotion nowhere envisages that an incumbent who is having blameworthy service profile can be denied his right of consideration for promotion thus describing the .....